Ben Goodger flat-out calls it a "clusterfuck" and criticizes the lack of standard APIs and tools. It is about needing to standardize. You even throw in the use of "FUD," "GNU/Linux," and "choice," which makes you come off as one of the stereotypical, brainwashed freetards who can't accept any criticism of their beloved operating system without resorting to preprogrammed Slashdotter responses.
Ubuntu is the biggest example of what you might consider a "desktop standard" in the wild and crazy Linux world, and Ubuntu uses GNOME and GTK+. It's not surprising Google went with it. It's amusing you asked why people are "still using GTK," as if Qt has somehow surpassed it or rendered it obsolete.
[I]s it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux in general, and the desktop in particular?"
It was time ten years ago when Linux was first gaining real momentum in that area. I remember posting Slashdot comments about it and getting told Linux was about "choice" and that if I didn't like it, I should contribute code. Ten years later, even Google is bashing Linux for it. I bet nothing will change even now.
Linux is a server OS, only used on the desktop by enthusiasts. Accept it, because the kind of standardized APIs that are needed are not going to happen with the attitudes that this community has.
The difference this time is that Obama is a Democrat, so the media will ignore the czar's complete ineffectiveness and never criticize anything he or she does.
What did you say? I was too busy surfing the information superhighway for info on the long tail using podcast-enabled Web 2.0 productivity enhancers while blogging and tweeting in the cloud. LOLWUT. THIS. FIXED. AMIRITE? ^_^
Sometimes I wish the internet would disappear. Excuse me, I mean that it should DIE IN A FIRE.
We're all supposed to laugh at the "irony" of this because we all hate intellectual property and copyright, remember? Even though the GPL depends on it...
Are you seriously comparing the Salem witch trials to convicting somebody who admitted to possessing illustrated child porn? You're really defending the creepy pedophile and his child porn comics?
Creepy anime nerds like this are why comic fans continue to be stereotyped. Because the stereotype is often true in hilarious ways.
I'm totally shocked that a self-professed hardcore Democrat is congratulating his Democrat president and supporting whatever his appointee says. Let's paint an entire city white based on a computer simulation. These are the kinds of ideas that people laugh at ten years from now.
The moment my government is telling me what color to paint my house is the moment I know my freedom is gone. If I want less smog, I'll move out of L.A.
I know it's trendy and hip to bash Christianity on Slashdot (before you ask, I'm agnostic), there are significant differences.
1.) The Bible is pretty easy to access. In fact, you can often get it for free because its believers want you to read it. 2.) I submit that believing some creator of the universe manifested its power in the form of a sacrificial holy man long ago is far less wacky then believing an intergalactic overlord imprisoned in a volcano who attached alien ghosts to primitive humans, causing all their problems. 3.) In spite of all the shit they get, the Christians I've met in life have generally been very friendly and nice to me. Just good folks who believe what they believe. You have your bad apples, but that's true for every group in the world. Scientologists, on the other hand, will ask you if you rape babies and are trained to believe that anyone critical of the religion is a criminal who is hiding dark secrets.
So, yeah, very little like Christianity, to be perfectly honest. You were just going for a cheap +5 Insightful by bashing the easy target.
That horrible wasting-mind disease known as nostalgia. On average, the same percentage of platformers were good as, for example, the percentage of first-person shooters that are good. The thing is, people still play the good platformers-- like Mario 3 or Sonic 2, and as a result, they completely forget about the thousands of crappy platformers out there.
Good thing this article is about Mario 3 and Sonic 2. You did read the article, right?
As for Something Awful's ROM pit, that's a comedy bit. They even bash Sonic 2 in there.
Normally, I would agree with you except for the incredible sales figures of New Super Mario Bros and the fact young gamers are still playing the older 2D games. I don't think there's a secret to their popularity--they're fast to get into and require no prologues or tutorial missions. You can stop playing at any time and easily jump back into it later. It's simple fun.
Don't pin it all on Bush. The majority of Republicans and Democrats in Congress happily supported it. It was amusing when the Democrats tried to position themselves as the anti-war party years later when most of the same people voted for the war.
It sounds like a real waste of time. The government calling on a group of science fiction writers to come up with ideas for the future? Are they out of their own ideas or something? What are they doing working in the government then? This just seems like a way to generate a fluff media piece listing cool fantasy technologies to make everyone hopeful and temporarily forget about economic problems and Democrat in-fighting.
Just another article to let the pirates on Slashdot feel like good guys for bashing the RIAA. If you haven't noticed, Slashdot is up to posting two to three of these kinds of stories every day now because they generate easy page hits and help people forget that they're ripping artists off.
File-sharing of copyrighted materials is not fair use. Why do you think big names like John Carmack no longer post on Slashdot? This website has adopted a position that he doesn't deserve to be paid for his work simply because the RIAA and MPAA exist. It's ridiculous and juvenile. Pirates are just human leeches who don't want to lose the free ride, so they try to make somebody else look like the bad guys to absolve themselves of guilty feelings. Human nature is a selfish thing, and the denial around here is constant.
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Ben Goodger flat-out calls it a "clusterfuck" and criticizes the lack of standard APIs and tools. It is about needing to standardize. You even throw in the use of "FUD," "GNU/Linux," and "choice," which makes you come off as one of the stereotypical, brainwashed freetards who can't accept any criticism of their beloved operating system without resorting to preprogrammed Slashdotter responses.
Ubuntu is the biggest example of what you might consider a "desktop standard" in the wild and crazy Linux world, and Ubuntu uses GNOME and GTK+. It's not surprising Google went with it. It's amusing you asked why people are "still using GTK," as if Qt has somehow surpassed it or rendered it obsolete.
That part in the summary amused me:
It was time ten years ago when Linux was first gaining real momentum in that area. I remember posting Slashdot comments about it and getting told Linux was about "choice" and that if I didn't like it, I should contribute code. Ten years later, even Google is bashing Linux for it. I bet nothing will change even now.
Linux is a server OS, only used on the desktop by enthusiasts. Accept it, because the kind of standardized APIs that are needed are not going to happen with the attitudes that this community has.
Is that supposed to justify it?
The difference this time is that Obama is a Democrat, so the media will ignore the czar's complete ineffectiveness and never criticize anything he or she does.
What did you say? I was too busy surfing the information superhighway for info on the long tail using podcast-enabled Web 2.0 productivity enhancers while blogging and tweeting in the cloud. LOLWUT. THIS. FIXED. AMIRITE? ^_^
Sometimes I wish the internet would disappear. Excuse me, I mean that it should DIE IN A FIRE.
I'm so damn tired of reading about the Palm Pre. It's everywhere, and it's annoying.
You're an enormous stereotype. I'm wondering if you are in fact a human cartoon.
We're all supposed to laugh at the "irony" of this because we all hate intellectual property and copyright, remember? Even though the GPL depends on it...
Are you seriously comparing the Salem witch trials to convicting somebody who admitted to possessing illustrated child porn? You're really defending the creepy pedophile and his child porn comics?
Creepy anime nerds like this are why comic fans continue to be stereotyped. Because the stereotype is often true in hilarious ways.
I'm totally shocked that a self-professed hardcore Democrat is congratulating his Democrat president and supporting whatever his appointee says. Let's paint an entire city white based on a computer simulation. These are the kinds of ideas that people laugh at ten years from now.
The moment my government is telling me what color to paint my house is the moment I know my freedom is gone. If I want less smog, I'll move out of L.A.
Canada--America's hat.
I know it's trendy and hip to bash Christianity on Slashdot (before you ask, I'm agnostic), there are significant differences.
1.) The Bible is pretty easy to access. In fact, you can often get it for free because its believers want you to read it.
2.) I submit that believing some creator of the universe manifested its power in the form of a sacrificial holy man long ago is far less wacky then believing an intergalactic overlord imprisoned in a volcano who attached alien ghosts to primitive humans, causing all their problems.
3.) In spite of all the shit they get, the Christians I've met in life have generally been very friendly and nice to me. Just good folks who believe what they believe. You have your bad apples, but that's true for every group in the world. Scientologists, on the other hand, will ask you if you rape babies and are trained to believe that anyone critical of the religion is a criminal who is hiding dark secrets.
So, yeah, very little like Christianity, to be perfectly honest. You were just going for a cheap +5 Insightful by bashing the easy target.
That's like asking me to stop watching movies even though I disliked movies in the past.
Slashdot sensationalizing something for cheap page hits? Say it ain't so.
Good thing this article is about Mario 3 and Sonic 2. You did read the article, right?
As for Something Awful's ROM pit, that's a comedy bit. They even bash Sonic 2 in there.
Yeah, Mario platformers are so terrible compared to today's standards that New Super Mario Bros. sold over 15 million copies by the end of 2008.
Normally, I would agree with you except for the incredible sales figures of New Super Mario Bros and the fact young gamers are still playing the older 2D games. I don't think there's a secret to their popularity--they're fast to get into and require no prologues or tutorial missions. You can stop playing at any time and easily jump back into it later. It's simple fun.
You can't even write English properly. Why should anyone care about you?
It doesn't matter. All that matters is that the story has the word "DMCA" in it and embarrasses a company. Bam, instant front page Slashdot story.
I hardly consider something so unbelievably trivial as "seriously fucked up."
Don't pin it all on Bush. The majority of Republicans and Democrats in Congress happily supported it. It was amusing when the Democrats tried to position themselves as the anti-war party years later when most of the same people voted for the war.
What is the value of space exploration to us at this point in time? Not a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely interested in people's responses.
It sounds like a real waste of time. The government calling on a group of science fiction writers to come up with ideas for the future? Are they out of their own ideas or something? What are they doing working in the government then? This just seems like a way to generate a fluff media piece listing cool fantasy technologies to make everyone hopeful and temporarily forget about economic problems and Democrat in-fighting.
Just another article to let the pirates on Slashdot feel like good guys for bashing the RIAA. If you haven't noticed, Slashdot is up to posting two to three of these kinds of stories every day now because they generate easy page hits and help people forget that they're ripping artists off.
File-sharing of copyrighted materials is not fair use. Why do you think big names like John Carmack no longer post on Slashdot? This website has adopted a position that he doesn't deserve to be paid for his work simply because the RIAA and MPAA exist. It's ridiculous and juvenile. Pirates are just human leeches who don't want to lose the free ride, so they try to make somebody else look like the bad guys to absolve themselves of guilty feelings. Human nature is a selfish thing, and the denial around here is constant.